Forgiveness Quotes

145. Forgiveness is a big part of – especially post-civil rights movement – is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn’t raised within the Christian church; I wasn’t raised within any church.

^{Ta-Nehisi Coates}

146. My parents are very good examples of Christians. They are big on forgiveness.

^{James Acaster}

147. Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.

^{Clemantine Wamariya}

148. Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

^{Richard Rohr}

149. To my younger self, I would say unless you’re literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.

^{Jonathan Van Ness}

150. I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.

^{T. D. Jakes}

151. If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

^{Keira Knightley}

152. Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

^{Desmond Tutu}

153. It’s important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it’s a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

^{Victoria Osteen}

154. Having known war I know the value of peace. Having lived under government control I know the value of freedom. Having lived with hatred, terror and corruption I know the value of faith and forgiveness.

^{Phan Thi Kim Phuc}

155. I learned about forgiveness, and I’ve reached out to others to make amends.

^{Beth Hart}

156. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

^{Adlai Stevenson II}

157. I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

^{William P. Young}

158. It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

^{Karl Barth}

159. The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior’s Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

^{James E. Faust}

160. I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive – the power is in love and forgiveness.

^{Dick Gephardt}

161. One can’t relive one’s life. Forgiveness is not what’s difficult; one’s always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that’s obvious.

^{Louis-Ferdinand Celine}

162. We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there’s an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

^{Bartlett Sher}

163. In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

^{Kevin DeYoung}

164. Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you’re fighting, and suddenly something happens. It’s a kind of grace. Whether you believe in God or not, something happens, and it’s transformative.

^{Ann Dowd}

165. The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

^{Simon Wiesenthal}

166. I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

^{Ben Affleck}

167. I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

^{Marianne Williamson}

168. There is freedom in forgiveness, and it’s not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

^{Dana Perino}

169. I’m all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.

^Montaigne

170. Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

^{Kate Hudson}

171. Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

^{Benjamin Clementine}

172. In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

^{Madeleine L’Engle}

173. In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

^{Rooney Mara}

174. Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God’s forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.

^{Said Nursi}

175. How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can’t. We shouldn’t. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

^{Abby Johnson}

176. Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

^{Desmond Tutu}

177. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

^{Sandra Cisneros}

178. I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

^{John Lewis}

179. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

^{William Blake}

180. If we were not sinners, Jesus would not have had to come. If he didn’t see us as sinners, he could have loved us without dying for us. He died for our sins. So if we’re all sinners, that means everybody’s in the pot together needing the same love, the same grace and the same forgiveness.

^{Kirk Franklin}

181. Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

^{Tara Westover}

182. Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

^{Ezra Taft Benson}

183. I think when you’re happy, emotions are right near the top – mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily… and I beg for forgiveness easily.

^{Nell Carter}

184. In reality, student loan forgiveness is welfare for the rich: a federal mandate that people who will make less money on average over the course of their lives bail out people who will make more money on average over the course of their lives.

^{Michael J. Knowles}

185. The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

^{Tyler Perry}

186. By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.

^{Cass Sunstein}

187. I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

188. I have my foundation, I help the children who are victims of war, and I talk about kids and I help people to understand how horrible war is and how beautiful the world can be if we can live with love, hope, and forgiveness.

^{Phan Thi Kim Phuc}

189. God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

^{Richard Rohr}

190. I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I’m a Buddhist.

^{Alan Ball}

191. People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn’t. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it’s gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.

^{Shawn Michaels}

192. Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

^{George Muller}

193. I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

^{Catherine Oxenberg}

194. Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

^{Paul J. Meyer}

195. No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

^{Edmund Phelps}

196. God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

^{Henry Ward Beecher}